Annu Rev Popul Law. 1988;15:95.
This legislation sets forth the General Regulations for Public Service in Burkina Faso. Among other things, it provides that female personnel are entitled to a maternity leave of 14 weeks to commence between six and four weeks before the presumed date of delivery as certified by a medical practitioner. If, after maternity leave has expired, the woman is not able to return to work, she is entitled to take sick leave as provided for elsewhere in the Regulations. For the period of 15 months after the birth of the child, the woman is entitled to a rest period of up to an hour a day to nurse her child.
